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ODELLS GULLY BATTERY

Location

CASSILIS HISTORIC RESERVE CASSILIS, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

File Number

11/003138-01

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

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ODELLS GULLY BATTERY

Statement of Significance

The Odells Gully Gold Battery Site consists of portable steam engine and a five head timber framed stamping battery in a rugged and remote bush setting. The battery and engine are remnants of a handful of ore crushing sites which originally served the quartz mine workings of the upper Swifts Creek.

The Odells Gully Gold Battery Site is of historical, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria.

The Odells Gully Gold Battery Site is historically and scientifically important as a characteristic example of an important form of gold mining. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria. As well as being a significant producer of Victoria's nineteenth century wealth, gold mining, with its intensive use of machinery, played an important role in the development of Victorian manufacturing industry. The abandoned mining machinery at Odells Gully is historically important for its evocation of the adventurousness, hardship and isolation that was part of mining life in the high country areas of the State.

The Odells Gully Gold Battery Site is archaeologically important for its potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the technological history of gold mining.

[Source: Victorian Heritage Register]

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